Stephen Blair
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you think to hard about this kind of stuff andy, just buy them mate, you wont look back. if you are working with steve and his ear plugs then it doent matter because you dont need to telll him anything, he knows what he is doing. but if you ever have any newbies on site or machine men, then put it in your RA that they need to wear them or walk:thumbup1: -
thats the one edd, have you seen the big hedge cutter for it, it can be angled All ways and cut about 3"
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pm sent justin
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new it is 24k in euros. this model is a 2 year old demonstrator with a few extras built into the hydraulics.
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my schiesling would do him niceley then, just turn down the rollers a bit haha
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nice hinge there, well done dad and daughter. i have had the joyess phonecall from an angry wife asking me to remove a jammed saw from a tree and take it down properly:biggrin:
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now imagine the mrs had a wee loader to play with aswell. you would both be smiling all day long:lol:
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does it dig into the tree?if there is a heavy weight on it near the outer end will it fold up the way??
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ha ha ha. well you arent getting my one! only joking mate, i will head off imediately:lol:
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did you just do it yourself then mick?
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if you came to the show you would of known:lol:
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your grapple, forks,road kit,back linkage and log splitter and toe bar. if we could have driven it to the job today with a small trailer on it for the sawdust and crap then it would of saved us 2 trips with the jeep and a lot of manouvering, most of my work is in my town, so 1 mile max... the pictures dont do the loaders manouverability justice, we spinned about the monoblock for 4 hrs and not a mark from the tyres was left. taking it on and off the trailer is a doddle, not like skid steers
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i am after the sequoia i think. it looks cool but the big seller for me is the back support. my big girly bosuns chair has served me well for 8 years now, it owes me nothing. any idea on cost:001_cool:
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yours , i mean my:001_tt2: new wee chipper comes tomorrow andy i havent bought the loader, i have hired it for a week to see how it does in different applications, the spec i want puts a good 4k on it, but after today the price doesnt seem so crazy now. the yard is like a bomb site as everything was thrown in today to get back on site, but an hour tomorrow in the loader will have it ship shape:thumbup:
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it was me you drunken bum lol:001_tongue:
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mr edd will fill you in mate:thumbup: the grapple is great, once we tied up the pipes. a rotator would make a HUGE difference. or if it could be locked into position at least. but someone with a welder and some bits of metal will soon sort that out
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we certainly did huck, i priced it with both eyes shut. 400 quid:crying:but the nieghbour wanted his big cony removed and then the customer wanted more stuff done, she thought i was very cheap at my price. she wasnt far wrong:001_unsure:
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the driveway was pretty tight, so swinging into it was a bit tricky for feeding, and because we were chipping into a trailer the wood was splattering everywhere, so we brashed them and seperated the larger bases of the trunks. but we nailed it a few times and it was great. even pulling over the trees into the garden saved so much hassle, we usually have to brash into the nieghbours then hand ball it over.
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there was some squashed grass, but a quick blow sorted it out. i always thought i could never do this in someones garden, but i explained what we were doing and i was demo ing this machine so to keep costs down yet speed up operation. if it was going to make a mess then i wouldnt of drove on the lawn. i really shot myself in the foot with this job, as i hadnt seen how wide it was over the nieghbours side, but the loader still made it profitable. if i had my new truck we would of completed that job in 2 hrs, it took us under 4, and that was including stacking brash then hand feeding plus 4 trips to the yard. and it was the first time with the kit set up this way.
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well the usual conifer hedge from hell today, but this time it was a lot easier. i dont have my truck yet so we used an ifor with high sides instead. it took 4 trailer loads of chip, that the big bandit filled in about 10 minutes per trailer load. the mini loader was awesome, we have had approx 2 feet of rain in august and there wasnt a mark on the lawn, and it is a nice one.:cool1:the last 2 pics are of a conifer in the neighbours garden, the wall was about 3 feet high. 100 quid cony as an extra, fell lift chip. sweet as:wink:
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keep at it mick, take a pic of it from the computer so you have it at work, wait till you get a ropeguide mate, zoom zoom zoom lol
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i know my mate put 3 ohase into his shop and it cost a fortune, but i think it was because they had to dig up the street..
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what about a 3 phase generator, they pur away lovely, and you could stick it outside the building:cool1:
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rope guide is cool alright buzz, like mick i was looking forward to climbing again.
